Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.

I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves.

Rebecca Johns

Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest.

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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Nancy Mitford

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Mark Twain

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

Terence

People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.

Oliver Goldsmith

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Sean Penn

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

Aldous Huxley

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Booth Tarkington

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

Bertrand Russell

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

Sloane Crosley

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Seamus Heaney